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Paul Pholeros - Healthabitat Overview (Bellagio Center Oct. 17, 2011)

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Preface Why does improving housing for Indigenous people seem to be such a long road? Expanding - Housing for HealthPaul PholerosDirector of HealthabitatBellagio Residency PresentationOctober 2011

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Preface Why does improving housing for Indigenous people seem to be such a long road? We believed the publication of Housing for Health (1994) was the proof that housing and health improvement were possible. It not only described how to do it, but also revealed how throughout the year long project, the local Aboriginal people were involved in both the work and the results.

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Housing for Health projects, immediate change not policy promises Why does improving housing for Indigenous people seem to be such a long road? We believed the publication of Housing for Health (1994) was the proof that housing and health improvement were possible. It not only described how to do it, but also revealed how throughout the year long project, the local Aboriginal people were involved in both the work and the results. Seventeen years later we’ve developed a robust methodology for assessing houses and specifying urgently needed works.

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Preface Why does improving housing for Indigenous people seem to be such a long road? We believed the publication of Housing for Health (1994) was the proof that housing and health improvement were possible. It not only described how to do it, but also revealed how throughout the year long project, the local Aboriginal people were involved in both the work and the results. Seventeen years later we’ve developed a robust methodology for assessing houses and specifying urgently needed works with a safety and health priority to focus small amounts of money to improve existing houses. 1985-2011 $7,500 av. per house

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Preface Why does improving housing for Indigenous people seem to be such a long road? We believed the publication of Housing for Health (1994) was the proof that housing and health improvement were possible. It not only described how to do it, but also revealed how throughout the year long project, the local Aboriginal people were involved in both the work and the results. Seventeen years later we’ve developed a robust methodology for assessing houses and specifying urgently needed works with a safety and health priority to focus small amounts of money to improve existing houses. A large, skilled, national team has completed this work, on over 7,000 houses.

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Preface Why does improving housing for Indigenous people seem to be such a long road? We believed the publication of Housing for Health (1994) was the proof that housing and health improvement were possible. It not only described how to do it, but also revealed how throughout the year long project, the local Aboriginal people were involved in both the work and the results. Seventeen years later we’ve developed a robust methodology for assessing houses and specifying urgently needed works with a safety and health priority to focus small amounts of money to improve existing houses. A large, skilled, national team has completed this work, on over 7,000 houses. Over 75 percent of this team are Indigenous people from each local community.

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Preface Why does improving housing for Indigenous people seem to be such a long road? We believed the publication of Housing for Health (1994) was the proof that housing and health improvement were possible. It not only described how to do it, but also revealed how throughout the year long project, the local Aboriginal people were involved in both the work and the results. Seventeen years later we’ve developed a robust methodology for assessing houses and specifying urgently needed works with a safety and health priority to focus small amounts of money to improve existing houses. A large, skilled, national team has completed this work, on over 7,000 houses. Over 75 percent of this team are 1985-2011 Indigenous people from each local community. The Housing for Health principles, informed and honed by data gathered from over 180 projects nationally,

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Preface Why does improving housing for Indigenous people seem to be such a long road? We believed the publication of Housing for Health (1994) was the proof that housing and health improvement were possible. It not only described how to do it, but also revealed how throughout the year long project, the local Aboriginal people were involved in both the work and the results. Seventeen years later we’ve developed a robust methodology for assessing houses and specifying urgently needed works with a safety and health priority to focus small amounts of money to improve existing houses. A large, skilled, national team has completed this work, on over 7,000 houses. Over 75 percent of this team are Indigenous people from each local community. The Housing for Health principles, informed and honed by data gathered from over 180 projects nationally, are described in the National Indigenous Housing Guide (3rd edition 2007) and have been accepted and adopted by all Australian governments since 1999.

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Survey Fix Day 1Teams walking from theBrownsville Partnershipoffice to variousapartments to start work

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Locations of the 10 apartments for the Housing for Health pilotThe apartments were selected by the Brownsville Partnership and included a wide variety of building types within the area.This 10 apartment trial was to enable the feasibility and costs to be assessed to improve 4,300 units in this area.

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we need toilets….the provision of toilets for 400 people in Bhattedande Village,Nepal 2007- 2010 and new projects ongoing

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$1800 = 1 toilet, biogas system and help build a local teamDispose of human waste safely - 58 toilets – with 28 bio gas and 30 septicsystems, for a village of 400+ people, with a full Nepali team. The work has nowmoved to two new villages with the same needs.

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“…an Australian Aboriginal problem….too hard to solve”“…poverty is not natural…it is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings” Nelson Mandela, University of Sydney, 2005 Expanding… Housing for Health